National award for Roughton champion of older carers

 

A campaigner helping older carers across north Norfolk has won a national award.

Richard Batson Saturday, September 17, 2011
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Mary Granville-White with Jon Snow

Mary Granville-White from Roughton won the local campaigner title at the Sheila McKechnie Foundation Campaigner Awards at a special ceremony hosted by Channel 4 newscaster Jon Snow at St Martin-in-the-Fields off Trafalgar Square in London.

The awards recognise the outstanding contribution that a new generation of campaigners is making towards achieving social, environmental and economic justice both in the UK and abroad.

Mrs Granville-White’s campaign is called Nothing About Us Without Us. She works in partnership with Age UK Norfolk, and aims to reward, support and recognise the contribution of older carers to society.

Improving dementia care

NHS Memory Services receive £10 million injection

Press Release from the Department of Health

£10 million is being made available to kick start a transformation in the way people with dementia are treated by the NHS, Care Services Minister, Paul Burstow announced today. The extra funding for memory services will help to identify people with dementia earlier and treat them more effectively.

Disabled and carers plan to fight closure of Centre for Independent Living

 SOS Westminster
 

Published: 16 September 2011
by JOSH LOEB

CARERS have been forced to set up a do-it-yourself-style day centre for some of Westminster’s most vulnerable people.
 
The Centre for Independent Living in Paddington, which offers activities for deaf and wheelchair-bound residents, will close at the end of this month as part of a shake-up of social care.People with disabilities who have been fighting the closure now plan to club together to stage regular art and cookery classes at another venue nearby.

Di Yeo, chair of campaign group SOS Westminster, called the impending closure “a great tragedy”.